Family and Education
b. 1505 /6, 1st s. of John Taverner of North Elmham, Norf. by Alice, da. of Robert Silvester of North Elmham; bro. of Robert and Roger. educ. Corpus Christi, Camb. adm. 1520; Cardinal, Oxf. adm by 1527, BA 21 June 1527, determined 1528; Gonville, Camb. incorp. 1529-30, MA 1529-30, pens. 1530-2; Strand Inn, adm. 1533; I. Temple, adm. 1534. m. (1) Aug. 1537, Margaret (bur. 31 Jan. 1563) da. of Walter Lambert of Chertsey, Surr. 4s. 3da., (2) Mary, da. of Sir John Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Oxon. and Ellenhall, Staffs. 1s. 1da.Date of birth given by his great-grandson, A. Wood, Ath. Ox. ed. Bliss, i. 419-23. DNB; Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 280; Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v), 159, 175, 179, 308; Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. 1501-40, pp. 557-8.
Offices Held
Marshal, I. Temple 1553–4.
Lecturer in Greek, Camb. ?1531 – 32; commr. relief, Surr. 1550; clerk of the signet by 1537 – 53; j.p. Surr. 1547, Oxon. 1558/59; reeve, borough of Lydford, Devon by 1553–5 or later; sheriff, Oxon. 1569–70.
Main residences: London; Norbiton, Surr.; Wood Eaton, Oxon.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
TAVERNER, Richard (1505/6-75)
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Oxford 1644
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